Pension funds search for alternatives to wind

Returns on wind turbine investments are shrinking and this has prompted pension funds to seek alternative ways to get returns on energy, explain Danish funds in a survey conducted by FinansWatch and EnergyWatch among some of the country's largest pension players.

Søren Vendelbo Jacobsen, head of real estate and infrastructure at Sampension.
Photo: Sampension/PR

A crack was discovered on the Forties Pipeline System in Scotland, while an explosion cost one fatality and injured at least 18 people at a gas plant in Austria. Repairs and concerns about dangerous incidents will only become more common in Europe's oil and gas infrastructure.